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Queer: Eine illustrierte Geschichte
Jennifer Sophia Theodor, Meg-John Barker, Julia Scheele
3.85 AVERAGE
1.06k reviews for:
Queer: Eine illustrierte Geschichte
Jennifer Sophia Theodor, Meg-John Barker, Julia Scheele
3.85 AVERAGE
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Written like a 'Graphic Guide' introductory book, this is a solid introduction to a very hard to define concept.
I like Graphic Guides books and I found this format comfortable. It does limit how much detail the authors could include which isn't a problem if you take this book as an introduction rather than a bible of what it means to be Queer.
The subject also works against any attempt to neatly summarize it. If the term 'queer' can be summarized at all, it is the idea that what makes us human is complex, varied and hard to quantify. This is not a comfortable thing to handle and queer theory and queer identity is, by their nature, very resistant to quantification and description.
I liked this book. It is a solid introduction within the limitations trying to introduce such a difficult subject. I found it a little simple but definitely something I'm glad to have in my library. It's a good welcome to the ideas of Queer Theory and History and invaluable for that.
I like Graphic Guides books and I found this format comfortable. It does limit how much detail the authors could include which isn't a problem if you take this book as an introduction rather than a bible of what it means to be Queer.
The subject also works against any attempt to neatly summarize it. If the term 'queer' can be summarized at all, it is the idea that what makes us human is complex, varied and hard to quantify. This is not a comfortable thing to handle and queer theory and queer identity is, by their nature, very resistant to quantification and description.
I liked this book. It is a solid introduction within the limitations trying to introduce such a difficult subject. I found it a little simple but definitely something I'm glad to have in my library. It's a good welcome to the ideas of Queer Theory and History and invaluable for that.
This turned out to be more of an academic history on queer theory, which was interesting, but not what I was expecting.
First: This book is not a history of queerness. This book is a history of queer theory.
Second: This book is not a good history of queer theory. Reading this book is like sitting through a lecture delivered by an unenthusiastic professor trying to win a bet by proving they can summarise the entirety of queer theory in an hour.
Third: At least the illustrations are nice to look at, but I do wish they could have been in colour.
Second: This book is not a good history of queer theory. Reading this book is like sitting through a lecture delivered by an unenthusiastic professor trying to win a bet by proving they can summarise the entirety of queer theory in an hour.
Third: At least the illustrations are nice to look at, but I do wish they could have been in colour.
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This was an informative and good introduction to queer theory. A good starting place for sure.
I just pulled this off the Pride month display at the end of June and decided I wanted to read it myself rather than reshelve it; I'd assumed based on the cover that it would be a history of like gay rights or queer culture or something but it's actually more specifically a history of queer theory. It does a great job of introducing really complex theorists like Butler and Foucault. The tone is conversational and funny and genuinely helpful, as well as intersectional.
I will NOTE for school/teen librarians that frankly some of the illustrations in here were a little spicier than I expected--in further investigation I don't think this was specifically published as a teen book but as an adult one, and I think older teens would definitely find it informative and be up for the challenge but it maybe would be better for a college audience? Like there are definitely multiple illustrations of "kink" in here that, I mean, to be honest if a parent complained about them being in the teen collection it would be a little hard to justify. It was published as an adult title but we had it in the teen collection? IDK. But also, it's been in the teen collection for 5 years and nobody's complained yet.
I will NOTE for school/teen librarians that frankly some of the illustrations in here were a little spicier than I expected--in further investigation I don't think this was specifically published as a teen book but as an adult one, and I think older teens would definitely find it informative and be up for the challenge but it maybe would be better for a college audience? Like there are definitely multiple illustrations of "kink" in here that, I mean, to be honest if a parent complained about them being in the teen collection it would be a little hard to justify. It was published as an adult title but we had it in the teen collection? IDK. But also, it's been in the teen collection for 5 years and nobody's complained yet.
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My wife asked me to summarize what the book is about and I had a hard time doing that. There’s a lot of academic theory here, and the author and illustrator do a good job of conveying that material as simply as possible, but queer theory is complicated. What I learned is a basic understanding that allows me to understand further conversations about queer and LGBT issues.
While I did enjoy this book, I think I probably should have known going in it was about queer theory and not really just queer history. So, a lot of the information was hard to absorb. I will however be revisiting this in the future for a re-read to try to get a little more from the text itself.